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Ever since I was a little kid I’ve had a problem with the United Nations. If the USA was sovereign, and our laws were our laws and other countries’ laws were other countries’ laws why did we have this entity...
Government MUST be reduced. Agencies must be consolidated. This isn’t the Carter era. We know better. American government is an unsustainable beast right now, and it should be noted that when Trump signed the Omnibus he expanded government. However he...
We libertarians have been jumping up and down about voting machines for a decade and a half. Long before Russia was officially in the dog house and the mystery Obama voters started popping up here and there. (From The State)...
It looks like an Internet sales tax has been given the go-ahead. Great. Just what America and consumers need, yet more taxes. Interestingly some pundits have been arguing that this will somehow hurt Amazon, the giant online retailer. This...
Less Merkel, More Mercedes See, now we’re talking. As we’ve said before, the highways of America should have more fine German vehicles on them, not fewer. Plus half the BMWs and Mercedes sold here are made in the states....
I am sorry to say it “liberal” friends but the public relations people in the Democratic Party have “gone low.” Very very low. But we sense that the American people are about fed up. The political class is using CHILDREN...
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(From Politico) The Trump administration issued an ambitious proposal Thursday to shrink government and reorganize how services are delivered to citizens, a plan that touches on nearly every corner of American life, from pizza to postal delivery. The proposal would...
(From NBC News) The justices broke with 50 years’ worth of legal rulings that barred the states from imposing sales taxes on most of the purchases their residents make from out-of-state retailers. The decision was a victory for South Dakota,...
(From Reuters) Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) shocked investors on Thursday with a warning that trade tensions would hit sales, while fears of a “tit-for-tat” trade war grew as Europe readied retaliatory tariffs against the United States. Auto stocks sank to...
(From The Guardian) Federal prosecutors issued a subpoena to the National Enquirer’s publisher for records pertaining to a $150,000 payment the magazine made before the 2016 presidential election to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who has said she had...
(From AP News) A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Thursday finds that 55 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea, up from 42 percent in March and 34 percent last...
(From AP News) Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The...
(From NBC News) Four Republican senators called Wednesday for an investigation of National Science Foundation grants, saying the federal agency had ventured beyond science and into political advocacy, particularly with its support of a program to encourage TV weathercasters to...
Susan Rice (From The Washington Examiner) Michael Daniel confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice ordered him and his staff to “stand down” in 2016 in regard to Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election. Daniel, special...
(From UPI) The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged Thursday with fraud and breach of trust over the alleged use of state funds for food and private chefs. Sara Netanyahu, 59, was indicted with Ezra Saidoff, a...
(From BBC News) Koko the gorilla, who is said to have been able to communicate by using more than 1,000 hand signs, has died in California at the age of 46. Instructors taught her a version of American Sign Language...
(From UPI) Engineers have developed an electronic “skin” that allows prosthetic hand users to perceive a real sense of touch. The e-dermis, when layered on top of the prosthetic hands, restores the sensation of touch through the fingertips. Engineers at...
(From NBC News) President Donald Trump, under pressure from angry members of his own party, signed on Wednesday an executive order that is meant to keep families together at the border, halting a policy he instituted earlier this year. “It’s...
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We didn’t always agree with Mr. Krauthammer, but he was always interesting and thoughtful. (From Fox News) Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author who came to be known as the dean...
“The ACLU’s capitulation to the anti-speech left should serve as a wake up call for true liberals.” This has been happening for a while now. Nat Hentoff, champion of free speech, super lefty hero and columnist for The Villiage Voice...
Good. If it’s within his authority, good. Of course now some are complaining that he didn’t do it earlier. Go figure. (From The National Review) President Trump said Wednesday that he would sign an executive order, drafted by Homeland Security...
